My video has been flagged by Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube

Written by Sarah Parnall Updated over a week ago

In most cases, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube should give you an option to "proceed" or "post anyway", and this is because they acknowledge that they often get a lot of false positives on their automated copyright detection.

Rest assured, you're safe to post the video!

Social platforms use automated algorithms to detect whether music sounds like other music, but they're often wrong. Our media library consists only music from the creative commons and the YouTube public music library, which have been pre-vetted by Google to ensure copyright-free status.

If you're curious to learn more about how and why these false positives happen, here's an example:

You can hear in the above example that "Better Repent" uses a small part of "Not As It Seems" as a mashup for their intro, but beyond that nothing sounds the same.

Auto-detection algorithms picks up on the similarities and asks you for confirmation on the copyright status of your post. This is why the false positives happen, and also why it's fully safe to proceed with posting it.